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Alkali earth metal binding properties of ionic microgels

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Eichenbaum, GM; Kiser, PF; Shah, D; Meuer, WP; Needham, D; Simon, SA
Published in: Macromolecules
May 30, 2000

Spherical micron-sized (4-10 μm in diameter) poly(methacrylic acid-co-acrylic acid) microgels were synthesized by precipitation polymerization, and their chelation reactions with chloride salts of Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, and Ba2+ were investigated by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Ion concentrations obtained by inductively coupled-plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) were used to obtain binding constants and to verify the results obtained by ITC. Although the two methods agreed within 20%, the ITC measurements were experimentally easier to obtain and more accurate. Interference contrast microscopy and micropipet manipulation techniques were used to measure the volume change and corresponding dehydration of the microgels as a function of divalent ion type and concentration. The ITC results showed that the addition of MCl2 electrolytes, where M represents a divalent metal, with the microgels was an entropy driven reaction in that ΔG approx. -20 kJ/mol ≅ TΔS. These data suggest that the free energy driving the ion exchange (M2+ divalent ions for monovalent Na+) is the result of the increase in the entropy of the system; this entropy increase is due to (1) water being 'squeezed' from the microgels into the bulk solution and (2) the collapse of the entropy elastic network that accompanies the decrease in the volume of the microgels.

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Macromolecules

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0024-9297

Publication Date

May 30, 2000

Volume

33

Issue

11

Start / End Page

4087 / 4093

Related Subject Headings

  • Polymers
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences
  • 09 Engineering
  • 03 Chemical Sciences
 

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Eichenbaum, G. M., Kiser, P. F., Shah, D., Meuer, W. P., Needham, D., & Simon, S. A. (2000). Alkali earth metal binding properties of ionic microgels. Macromolecules, 33(11), 4087–4093. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma9917139
Eichenbaum, G. M., P. F. Kiser, D. Shah, W. P. Meuer, D. Needham, and S. A. Simon. “Alkali earth metal binding properties of ionic microgels.” Macromolecules 33, no. 11 (May 30, 2000): 4087–93. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma9917139.
Eichenbaum GM, Kiser PF, Shah D, Meuer WP, Needham D, Simon SA. Alkali earth metal binding properties of ionic microgels. Macromolecules. 2000 May 30;33(11):4087–93.
Eichenbaum, G. M., et al. “Alkali earth metal binding properties of ionic microgels.” Macromolecules, vol. 33, no. 11, May 2000, pp. 4087–93. Scopus, doi:10.1021/ma9917139.
Eichenbaum GM, Kiser PF, Shah D, Meuer WP, Needham D, Simon SA. Alkali earth metal binding properties of ionic microgels. Macromolecules. 2000 May 30;33(11):4087–4093.
Journal cover image

Published In

Macromolecules

DOI

ISSN

0024-9297

Publication Date

May 30, 2000

Volume

33

Issue

11

Start / End Page

4087 / 4093

Related Subject Headings

  • Polymers
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences
  • 09 Engineering
  • 03 Chemical Sciences